• Hyperreality@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      It’s pervasive in most sports. Even weight lifting where rests are basically manditory. Still you get absolute chumps who injure themselves out because they work out too often.

      Meanwhile I’ve been half-arsing my weight lifting routine for years, but have made and maintained far larger gains, through the benefits of junk food, attainable goals, and laziness.

      • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.worldOP
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        1 year ago

        Can confirm. I’m deep into my second year of (a proper) lifting (regime) and I’m doing it with far less frequency and weight than I would’ve imagined at the start, due to chronic minor injury from constant overreaching in the first year.

        (It doesn’t help that I’m pushing 40.)

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          11 months ago

          Damn I needed to hear this. I keep pushing it and slightly hurting my back, then having to go way down, or stopping entirely…

      • Cows Look Like Maps
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        Oh, for sure. I’m just pointing it out since I have seen it with every runner I know and we’re on a running community lol.